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Gardens are always on the
move, and evolve over time some would say aging gracefully and this achieved
with or without human intervention.
Naturally gardens go through
phases following the seasons of the year and they are heavily influenced by the
weather conditions around at that time and some gardens have been managed just
to do this. The weather not only affects when they flower and flourish but also
the amount of colour where greater sunlight has been or the opposite of
destroying them through frosts and adverse weather conditions within their
normal cycle.
Many wild gardens have little
human involvement and are managed to attract wildlife, and there are many nature
reserves throughout the UK that do this. On the other hand gardens within our
stately homes
 which have manicured hedges, specialty garden features are
controlled by human intervention, what we can see in them is planned and
therefore gives us a more likely possibility of seeing something at whatever
time of year we visit. Of course humans can only determine what is going to be
in the garden and at what quality, we have no control over when the plants should
bloom or flourish. You will find many of the gardens listed within our
listing guides have websites, and many use these to let us all know when something is out
in flower and ready to see.
All you can say is that a
garden is an inspiration at whatever time of year, in whatever weather
conditions. As a continually evolving environment you can never catch the same
display twice and what you can get one year cannot be repeated again. Next year
however, there will be more enjoyment and different characteristics that you
will be able to capture. |
Colour adds to the picture
Features give structure and focus |
to use and at what point you will get or miss that
photograph. For example let us take
